There is a distinction between consciously heard, and viscerally sensed; both are valid and necessary for the listening experience.
Our hearing is not passive, it is active and interactive with the hearing environment, on a visceral level.
The ear/brain is not just a passive pair of microphones feeding a processor in as a linear stimulus response model would imply, a more accurate model of the ear/brain involves nested feedback loops.
A recently discovered phenomena, loosely analogous to the iris of the eyes widening and narrowing in response to the intensity of perceived light, including glasses blocking out UV and the iris not contracting sufficiently in sunlight is this:
Our ears are not passive; they are active participants in sound, interacting with the environment in a way which leads to brain/mind entrainment with what we hear. This dynamic aspect of hearing appears to have been useful to our physical ancestors having a wide range of hearing, predators sensing prey food or prey sensing predators and not becoming food, the directional/spatial cues of a small snap of a twig being stepped on, against a background of thunder for instance. It also is what facilitates brain entrainment from anything rhythmic as the hippocampus "decodes" the envelope of sound from both ears: traditional shamanic drumming, pounding deep house mixes at raves and festivals, isochronic tones, binaural beats, the slow subharmonics of singing bowls, the liquid quality of piano strings resonating with each other, the nuances of jazz bass. The ear/brain is in a feedback loop, responding to the initial slope of sonic events, which tightens and loosens muscles around the eardrum in anticipation of high amplitude events; essentially following the envelope of the magnitude or intensity of the sound perceived.
Listen: https://33bowls.bandcamp.com/track/spectral
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